Robert Swindells wrote the book "Brother in the land".

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        Robert Swindells wrote the book “Brother in the land”. He wrote this book to teach us how devastating a nuclear bomb could be to us people. He chose a teenage audience so that he could show them that this does not only happen in films but also in real life and so he chose the main character as a teenager called “Danny” so that the audience could “relate” to him. He also wanted to show us how people change and how their roles in society change. He also wanted to show to us that people do not just come together in “one big happy family” but are categorised into groups and are given names e.g.: “Spacers” and “Goths” or “Purples”. Robert Swindells also brought into Danny’s life a girl called Kim and he did this to show that even in extraordinary situations love can still immerge. Robert Swindells introduced quite a lot of characters in this book to show how other people around Danny behave and how they change to cope with difficult situations.

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        Robert Swindells has introduced many characters into Danny’s life like Kim, Ben, Branwell, Rhodes, Lodge and a lot more. He has chosen this variety of characters to show us how different people react to different situations. I think Kim is supposed to be the “sentimental” type of person who fights what she believes for and I think that was done to show that if you are that type of person you should learn to adapt more and if this should ever happen you should do what they did and learn from your mistakes.

 All of these characters are ...

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